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most grateful of all fruits. Its flesh is filled with a rich 

 luscious juice ; but the inferior kinds have also so much 

 turpentine flavour as to be uneatable." Unfortunately, 

 our Mangoes are notoriously inferior ; and to say no* 

 thing of the turpentine flavor that some of them occa- 

 sionally have, half, if not three fourths of all that are sold 

 in the bazar, are worm eaten, though that is not at all 

 apparent when they are bought. 



Ther". are two different species, both of which the na- 

 tives say grow wild, and several varieties are cultivated in 

 the Provinces. The finest is a variety from Siam, which 

 produces a large fruit with a very thin stone. 



Mangiferu indica. 

 " sylvatica. 



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HORSE MANGO. 



This is a large mango multiplied at Mergui, and is 

 quite a favorite with the natives. It has an odour resem- 

 bling the dorian, and like that has been introduced from 

 *he Straits. 



Mangifcra fcetida. 



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OPPOSITE-LEAVED MANGO. 



This indigenous tree produces a fruit much like a plum. 

 There are two varieties, — one bearing an intensely sour 

 fruit, and the other, one as insipidly sweet. 



Cambessedea oppositifolia. 

 Mangifera " 



Licni. 



The lichi, originally from China, is a favorite fruit in 

 Bengal, but did not succeed on this a Coast until recently* 

 The trees bore their first fruit last year. 

 Nephtlium Lichi. 



